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Thoughts on Constructing Anarchisms

December 1, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms Suggested readings: Anarchy: Into the Maelstrom [audio] Positive Anarchy and Collective Force [audio] Anarchy: Lawless and Unprincipled [audio] Anarchy, Harmony and the Maelstrom of Desire [audio] Anarchy: Action in the Face of Uncertainty [audio] From last week: Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Related reading: Alfredo M. Bonnano, “The Anarchist Tension” (1996) Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea General: A neo-Proudhonian Synthesis: A Tour of the Lost Continent: Constructing Anarchisms: Constructing Anarchisms 1.—Making […]
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Workshop: Constructing Anarchisms

November 18, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
I’ve been contemplating hosting some sort of introductory course on anarchist history and theory for a long time now—and have put it off for a variety of reasons, not least of which is my own feelings of unpreparedness. It is no small thing to try to talk about the basics among anarchists, who often have very strong feelings about what they are not, even if they are not all that clear about what they are—or have strong feelings that perhaps that’s just not the sort of thing that real anarchists talk about. I posted “An Anarchist Survey” in 2018, in […]
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Collective Force: Notes on Contribution and Disposition

September 7, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: “The Anatomy of the Encounter” (September 7, 2013) “Property, Individuality and Collective Force” (January 28, 2016) “Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 5” (August 3, 2020) “Letter to « l’en dehors » from Max Nettlau” (1922) A force of one thousand men working twenty days has been paid the same wages that one would be paid for working fifty-five years; but this force of one thousand has done in twenty days what a single man could not have accomplished, though he had labored for a million centuries. Is the exchange an equitable one? Once more, […]
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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 6

August 9, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: Posts:   Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism No. 6. — Songs of Solitary Selves Just when it looked like summer had settled in for good, August delivered a bit of rain. And just when I thought I had pretty well wrapped up this set of […]
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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 5

August 3, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: “The Gift Economy of Property“ “Occupancy-and-Use: Neo-Proudhonian Remarks“ “Property, Individuality and Collective Force“ “What could justify property?“ Pierre Leroux in “The Present” and “The Spirit of the Age” Posts: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism No. 5. — Give and Take: The First Society I would, […]
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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 4

July 21, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: “The Gift Economy of Property“ “Occupancy-and-Use: Neo-Proudhonian Remarks“ “A Tale of Three Provisos“ Posts: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism No. 4. — Give and Take: The Last Polity Summer is finally upon us and the fields, which have been going through their slow, but steady […]
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Junius, “The Indifferent” (E. Armand)

July 17, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
In some autobiographical reflections published in l’Unique, E. Armand noted that late in 1897, he wrote “under the signature Franck or Junius or the two together” some articles for Sébastien Faure’s anarchist newspaper Le Libertaire. When I went in search of the writings, I found nothing earlier than February 1898, but I did find three articles signed “Junius” and three poems signed with some variation of “Frank J.” I’ve transcribed all six and am comparing the poems to similar work signed by Armand. I’ll have more to say about all of this is a future installment of the “Rambles in […]
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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 3

July 14, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State E. Armand, “Life as Experience” (1906) Renzo Novatore, “Intellectual Vagabonds” (1917) “Note on Mutualism and the Market-Form“ “A passage missing from The Theory of Property“ “Proudhon on the State in 1861“ “Authority, Liberty and the Federative Principle“ “Anarchy: Historical, Abstract and […]
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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 2

July 9, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Sources: E. Armand, “Je n’ai pas toujours qu’une opinion,” Hors du troupeau No. 5-6 (janvier-février 1912): 85-86. E. Armand, “Parce que je tu considère comme mien,” Les Réfractaires no. 2-3 (31 janvier 1913): 13. Benjamin de Casseres, “Solitude,” Hors du troupeau No. 5-6 (janvier-février 1912): 86. E. Armand, “A […]
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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 1

July 2, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Main page Related links: E. Armand, “Life as Experience” (1906) P.-J. Proudhon, The Philosophy of Progress (1853) “The Fundamental Laws of the Universe(!) and the Anarchism of Approximation“ “Notes on Liberty and neo-Proudhonian Anarchism“ Pseudonymous articles by E. Armand Eugène Bizeau, “Anarchist Individualist Initiation” (1924) Marius Jean (1887-1973) [main page] Posts: […]